The same point is made about Japanese films and television shows depicting homosexuality, which, like the manga, are mostly aimed at a female audience. McLelland takes the discussion further to include newer manga situated in the present but insists that the depictions are equally not representative of actual gay existence, as they are over-romantic. However, little attention has been paid to developments in the 1980s, let alone the 1990s, resulting in an outdated depiction of the genre, with, for instance, a stress on the foreignness or otherworldliness of the situations described. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Contextĭiscussing Depictions of Male Homosexuality in Japanese Girls' Comics, Gay Comics and Gay PornographyĪ number of papers in English have discussed the genre of shōjo manga known as BLB (boy loves boy) manga in which gay male characters figure prominently and which were first published in the 1970s.
